Back in December last year we published the second part of our two part paper What the Customer Needs to Meet the Challenge of IoT & Data-Ism… In Part 1 we discussed customers needs as the physical security equipment business gradually developed products that improved performance, reduced cost and enhanced value add services over the previous 20 years. In Part 2 we reviewed what the customer needs to meet the challenge of entering the next stage of IoT & Data-ism. We are now entering a third stage where all physical security products will eventually sit on one common network that joins up all the sensors and devices in a building. We are calling this the Building Internet of Things (BIoT). However this has so far had little impact on the day to day operation of the security industry. The reason for this is that IoT Technology is being driven by the ICT industry including silicon […]